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2017-02-21T11:54:19-05:00

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Christian faith at Deutsche Telekom

Last updated on: February 21, 2017 at 11:54 am By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

…as outlined in this profile at Seedbed of Andrea Baare, a corporate chaplain: As a businesswoman and theologian who did not choose ordained ministry in the German Protestant State Church, I struggled with a sense of guilt for many years. Had I made the right choice moving into the business world instead of pursuing full-time ministry? Could my “secular” job be equally a “calling” from God? Or was that privilege strictly reserved for clerical or helping professions, such as missionaries, doctors and nurses?... Read more

2017-02-27T13:20:43-05:00

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Cleaning and Cultural Prejudice: A Reflection on Good Practices and Toxic Theology #AshWednesday

Last updated on: February 27, 2017 at 1:20 pm By Guest Contributor

By Stephen Milliken Cleaning. Everybody at some point in their lives has to clean up something. But interestingly, those of us who practice this discipline the most tend to be society’s most neglected, or at least second class citizens. Gender norms place cleaning within women’s work, drudgery not fit for the magnanimous free thoughts of men. The more I learn about the body and matter, the more I am conscious of how poorly my American society regards those closest to... Read more

2017-02-20T17:14:44-05:00

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Leading From Your Authentic Abyss

Last updated on: February 20, 2017 at 5:14 pm By Guest Contributor

By Timothy Askew; reprinted from Inc. with the kind permission of Timothy Askew. American poet May Sarton once said, “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” Back in the eighties I was watching Johnny Carson one night. The actress Shelley Winters was Johnny’s guest. Shelley Winters flounced herself out and sat her amplitude into the guest chair. Johnny Carson was obviously fond of her, as he frequently had her on.... Read more

2017-02-20T15:34:25-05:00

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God’s into art, not empires

Last updated on: February 20, 2017 at 3:34 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

In seminary, several decades ago, I had a good friend named Christ (rhymes with “wrist”) John Otto. He’s written posts on this blog before about how artists need to be the foremost culture-shapers of our time (here and here). We’ve taken different denominational and vocational paths over the decades, but two things are true of both of us: we are both writers and we are both artists. Two years ago, he wrote a book about the centrality of art to... Read more

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2017-02-18T14:03:18-05:00

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Retail workers are people too

Last updated on: February 18, 2017 at 2:03 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

A while ago, I made a commitment to always greet and thank retail workers in whatever situation I encountered them (Starbucks, Walmart, or the corner doughnut shop. Actually, I don’t live near a corner doughnut shop anymore….more’s the pity.) I have renewed this commitment after I read this penetrating and depressing article about what it’s like to work in retail. Be nice to your store clerks, everybody, and remember they are people made in the image of God. When we... Read more

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2017-02-10T11:06:20-05:00

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Is the utopian workplace just a ploy to keep us all at work?

Last updated on: February 10, 2017 at 11:06 am By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Today’s long read is from Aeon, and asks a provocative question about whether “tech campuses” and the like are really in all of our best interests. After talking about Google’s new Mountain View campus, author Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey wonders: Such offices symbolise not just the future of work in the public mind, but also a new, utopian age with aspirations beyond the workplace. The dream is a place at once comfortable and entrepreneurial, where personal growth aligns with profit growth, and where work... Read more

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2017-02-14T12:17:27-05:00

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Vocation and Community on #ValentinesDay

Last updated on: February 14, 2017 at 12:17 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

The Church, As it is The Body of Christ Small as a mustard seed and just as fair, The seeds of faith are planted in the night, Seeking their tiny space of warmth and light, Asking but room to grow and prosper there. Small as the seeds of faith, the hope of trust Once-wounded reaches out into the day For answering trust somewhere along the way The fruit of pain and light, of love and loss. We learn there is... Read more

2017-02-08T12:44:00-05:00

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A Leap Into Social Entrepreneurship

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 12:44 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

…as detailed over at Seedbed by Josh Moon. I heard his presentation to The Asbury Project a couple of years ago, and I commend his efforts: If you are thinking you are way too unprepared to be a social entrepreneur, then we will get along quite well. Before my sophomore year in college I had no idea what social entrepreneurship meant. I kept hearing the term mentioned in conversations; and being the curious individual I am, I decided to take a... Read more

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2017-02-10T11:06:51-05:00

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Do long hours make you less productive?

Last updated on: February 10, 2017 at 11:06 am By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

CNBC reported a bit ago that working more than 50 hours a week may not be doing you, or your employer, any favors: Nearly half of U.S. workers say they routinely put in more than 50 hours on the job each week, often without overtime pay. But employers should probably start politely declining the “free” gift, new research suggests. So-called “work martyrs” give hundreds of hours in free labor to their employers every year, encouraged by always-on gadgets, work through... Read more

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2017-02-06T18:26:33-05:00

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Why we need a new theology of work

Last updated on: February 6, 2017 at 6:26 pm By Jennifer Woodruff Tait

Excellent points about work and faith made by Jonathan Malesic here recently: American workers put in more time on the job than most of their global economic peers, and increasingly, the boundary between work and not-work is a fuzzy one. As a result, the labor force increasingly experiences work as precarious, discontinuous and materially unrewarding. There is also a problem in the way we talk about our work. As the stability of work that characterized the industrial era becomes rarer, the... Read more

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